Love Harlan Ellison, been a fan of his for a long time. In case you haven’t been introduced to the man and his works, Harlan is a rather vocal and opinionated writer, mainly of short stories and essays. He’s a champion of the idea that a writer without strong opinions (and the will […]
In most of Western civilization, we’ve elevated reductionism and ambivalence to the status of state religion. We write off cultural myth as merely fanciful storytelling (or worse, literal truth); reduce vital political debates to the competitive give-and-take of a football game; entertain the idea that formal education is little more than cultural repression; even […]
For those of us to make their livings with the written word, stories such as the J. T. Leroy drama pose a dilemma. On one hand, we understand the creative needs of an artist and how “the system” can prevent them from being met; on the other, citizens in a free society must be […]
